In May 1989, Kevin McGuire (Nivek) went to Beijing, China, as a freelance reporter and supporter of the pro-democracy campaign headquartered in Tiananmen Square and known as the Beijing Spring. An American Worker in Tiananmen Square is a chronicle of the last 8 days of the Beijing Spring, including the army’s bloody crackdown on June 4th.

It is May 1989. The author is a 35-year-old socialist/journalist who is in the middle of leading a union organizing campaign at his legal publishing job in San Francisco, when he gets a call from the San Francisco Examiner to cover the Tiananmen Square protests.

It is the 1989 version of Warren Beatty’s Reds, which told the story of American socialist/journalist John Reed, who went to Petrograd on the eve of the 1917 October Revolution in time to write an eyewitness account of that seminal event, Ten Days That Shook the World.

Genres
Action, Political Drama, Seminal Historical Event, Thriller, Suspense

What’s New About the Story

It's a historical passage not much explored by the film industry, so its content is original, particularly because it is told from the journalist's POV.

This could be the definitive movie on Tiananmen Square.

An American Worker in Tiananmen Square would strike a chord globally because it encapsulates the bipolar world we live in—the rivalry between the People’s Republic of China and the United States—a reality reflected in the film’s title.